ULT NUM Chapter 31

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31 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Avenge the vengeance of the sons of Israel from with the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your peoples.”

3 And Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Equip from with you men for the army. And they shall be against Midian to give the vengeance of Yahweh on Midian. 4 A thousand for the tribe, a thousand for the tribe for all the tribes of Israel you shall send for the army.” 5 And were selected from the thousands of Israel a thousand for the tribe, 12,000 equipped ones of an army. 6 And Moses sent them, a thousand for the tribe for the army, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest for the army, and the vessels of the holy place and the trumpets of the alarm, were in his hand. 7 And they fought against Midian, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses, and they killed every male. 8 And they killed the kings of Midian upon their slain ones: Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian; and Balaam the son of Beor they killed by the sword. 9 And the sons of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their children, and they plundered all their animal and all their livestock and all their strength. 10 And all their cities with their dwellings and all their encampments they burned with the fire. 11 And they took all the plunder and all the spoil, among the man and among the animal, 12 and they brought to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the congregation of the sons of Israel the captive and the spoil and the plunder to the camp, to the plains of Moab, which, are beside the Jordan, at Jericho.

13 And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the congregation went out to meet them to the outside of the camp. 14 And Moses was angry against the counted ones of the strength, the princes of the thousands and the princes of the hundreds, the ones coming from the army of the battle. 15 And Moses said to them, “Have you kept every female alive? 16 Behold, they were to the sons of Israel by the word of Balaam to select unfaithfulness against Yahweh on the matter of Peor, and the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh. 17 And now, kill every male among the children, and kill every woman having known a man to the bed of a male. 18 And keep alive for you all children among the women who have not known a bed of a male. 19 And you, camp, to the outside of the camp seven days. All ones killing a person and all ones touching a slain one, you shall purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captive. 20 And every cloth and every vessel of skin and every work of goats and every vessel of wood you shall purify.”

21 And Eleazar the priest said to the men of the army, the ones having gone to the battle, “This is the statute of the law that Yahweh commanded Moses: 22 Only the gold and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead, 23 every thing that goes in the fire, you shall pass in the fire, and it will be clean; only in water of impurity it shall be purified. And all that does not go in the fire you shall pass in the water. 24 And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you will be clean, and after you may go to the camp.”

25 And Yahweh said to Moses, saying, 26 “Lift up the head of the spoil of the captive, among the man and among the animal, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers of the congregation. 27 And you shall divide the spoil between the seizers of the battle, the ones having gone out for the army, and between all the congregation. 28 And you shall raise a levy for Yahweh from with the men of the battle, the ones having gone out for the army, one life from the 500, from the man and from the cattle and from the donkeys and from the flock. 29 You shall take from their half and give the contribution of Yahweh to Eleazar the priest. 30 And from the half of the sons of Israel you shall take one seized one from the 50, from the man, from the cattle, from the donkeys, and from the flock, from all the animal, and you shall give them to the Levites, the ones keeping the keeping of the Dwelling of Yahweh.” 31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did just as Yahweh commanded Moses.

32 And the spoil, the rest of the plunder that the people of the army plundered: 675,000 flock, 33 and 72,000 cattle, 34 and 61,000 donkeys, 35 and a life of a man, from the women who had not known a bed of a male, every life, 32,000. 36 And the half was the portion of the ones having gone out in the army. The number of the flock: 337,500. 37 And the levy for Yahweh from the flock: 675. 38 And the cattle: 36,000. And their levy for Yahweh: 72. 39 And the donkeys: 30,500. And their levy for Yahweh: 61. 40 And a life of a man: 16,000. And their levy for Yahweh: 32 lives. 41 And Moses gave the levy of the contribution of Yahweh to Eleazar the priest, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.

42 And from the half of the sons of Israel, which Moses divided from the men having fought—43 and the half of the congregation from the flock was 337,500, 44 and 36,000 cattle, 45 and 30,500 donkeys, 46 and 16,000 lives of a man—47 and Moses took from the half of the sons of Israel the seized one, one from the 50, from the man and from the animal, and he gave them to the Levites, the ones keeping the keeping of the Dwelling of Yahweh, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.

48 And the counted ones who, were for the thousands of the army, the princes of the thousands and the princes of the hundreds, came near to Moses. 49 And they said to Moses, “Your servants have lifted up the head of the men of the battle who, were in our hand, and a man from us is not missing. 50 And we have presented the offering of Yahweh, a man what he found, a vessel of gold—armlet, and bracelet, signet ring, earring, and ornament—to make atonement for our lives to the face of Yahweh.” 51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from with them, every vessel of work. 52 And all the gold of the contribution that they raised to Yahweh was 16,750 shekels, from with the princes of the thousands and from with the princes of the hundreds. 53 The men of the army had plundered, a man for himself. 54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from with the princes of the thousands and the hundreds, and they brought it to the tent of meeting, a memorial for the sons of Israel to the face of Yahweh.

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